Cala Gonone
Cala Gonone is an Italian seaside town and a civil parish (frazione) of the municipality (comune) of Dorgali, Province of Nuoro, in the region of Sardinia. In 2007 its population was of 1,279 inhabitants.
History
The area around Cala Gonone was inhabited in the Nuragic Era. The remains of a Nuragic settlement can be seen at Nuraghe Mannu on the outskirts of the village, just off the road to Dorgali. The modern village was founded by a colony of fishermen from the island of Ponza at the beginning of the 20th century. The town however remained largely isolated from the rest of Sardinia until the tunnel through the hills from Dorgali was opened in 1860.
Geography
The town is situated in the Bay of Orosei on the east of the island and in the geographical region of Supramonte, 9 kilometers from Dorgali, 41 from Nuoro and 108 from Olbia. Close to the village, and reachable by the sea, is the show cave of Bue Marino. Many boats from small speedboats to large tourist boats dock in at the Bue Marino or travel further down the coast to Cala Luna to let the passengers bath in the turquoise water or explore the caves that have been hollowed out by the sea. Almost everyone that goes to the small caves writes their name in charcoal ,from a small fire, on the wall, creating a huge mass of writing across several meters of the cave wall.
Podcasts:
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Send The Boats Away
by: ColcannonOnce on sea on sea of silver fishermen will cast there
nets,
To take the bounty from the sea those men are fishing
yet,
But now there boats are laden down with goods of evil
score,
And in these peace times we should fear those sea bound
men of war.
Send the boats away my friend, Send the boats away,
We care not how we run them out, Send the boats away,
And if we choose to live in peace who are they to say,
Take a stand protect this land, Send the boats away.
Who will want these nuclear holds, when the nets are
raised,
And death comes to our ocean when the seas are full of
waste,
Our fishing boat, or fishing boats lie useless on the
shore,
And bearing down upon them now, those sea bound men of
war.
Send the boats away my friend, Send the boats away,
We care not how we run them out, Send the boats away,
And if we choose to live in peace who are they to say,
Take a stand protect this land, Send the boats away.
Once I lay easy in my bed, mind free from hollow cause,
Now it seams our nuclear brine pacific sons we’ve lost,
For now those boats are laden down with goods of lethal
store,
And in these peace times we should fear those sea bound
men of war.
Send the boats away my friend, Send the boats away,
We care not how we run them out, Send the boats away,
And if we choose to live in peace who are they to say,
Take a stand protect this land, Send the boats away.